Sweating the Small Stuff

Sweating the Small Stuff
Author: David Whitman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2008
Genre: Academic achievement
ISBN:

This book tells the story of six secondary schools that have succeeded in eliminating or dramatically shrinking the achievement gap between whites and disadvantaged black and Hispanic students. It recounts the stories of the University Park Campus School (UPCS) in Worcester, the American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland, Amistad Academy in New Haven, the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, the KIPP Academy in the Bronx, and the SEED school in Washington, D.C.

Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship

Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship
Author: John J Bukowczyk
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252099230

The next volume in the Common Threads book series, Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship assembles fourteen articles from the Journal of American Ethnic History . The chapters discuss the divisions and hierarchies confronted by immigrants to the United States, and how these immigrants shape, and are shaped by, the social and cultural worlds they enter. Drawing on scholarship of ethnic groups from around the globe, the articles illuminate the often fraught journey many migrants undertake from mistrusted Other to sometimes welcomed citizen. Contributors: James R. Barrett, Douglas C. Baynton, Vibha Bhalla, Julio Capó, Jr., Robert Fleegler, Gunlög Fur, Hidetaka Hirota, Karen Leonard, Willow Lung-Amam, Raymond A. Mohl, Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Lara Putnam, David Reimers, David Roediger, and Allison Varzally.

Why I Believed

Why I Believed
Author: Kenneth W. Daniels
Publisher: Kenneth W Daniels
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2008-06-28
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 0578003880

Part auto-biography and part exposé of Ken Daniels' experience and long time belief in Christianity and the questions and answers he's had to ask about with regard to the validity of Christian theories.

Refiguring the Archive

Refiguring the Archive
Author: Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9401005702

Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an early manual for a time that has already begun.

The Year of Peril

The Year of Peril
Author: Tracy Campbell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300252838

A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within. Exploring this precarious moment, Tracy Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social, economic, and political fault lines that pitted factions of citizens against each other in the post–Pearl Harbor era, even as the nation mobilized, government†‘aided industrial infrastructure blossomed, and parents sent their sons off to war. This captivating look at how American society responded to the greatest stress experienced since the Civil War reveals the various ways, both good and bad, that the trauma of 1942 forced Americans to redefine their relationship with democracy in ways that continue to affect us today.

Learning to Teach Art and Design In the Secondary School

Learning to Teach Art and Design In the Secondary School
Author: Nicholas Addison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2006-09-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134702418

Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School advocates art, craft and design as useful, critical, transforming, and therefore fundamental to a plural society. It offers a conceptual and practical framework for understanding the diverse nature of art and design in education at KS3 and the 14-19 curriculum. It provides support and guidance for learning and teaching in art and design, suggesting strategies to motivate and engage pupils in making, discussing and evaluating visual and material culture. With reference to current debates Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School explores a range of approaches to teaching and learning, it raises issues, questions orthodoxies and identifies new directions. The chapters examine: ways of learning planning and resourcing attitudes to making critical studies values and critical pedagogy. The book is designed to provide underpinning theory and address issues for student teachers on PGCE and initial teacher education courses in Art and Design. It will also be of relevance and value to teachers in school with designated responsibility for supervision.

Labour in a Single Shot

Labour in a Single Shot
Author: Schwartz GRUNDMANN
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-11-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9789463722421

The book both extends and reflects upon a large-scale, international art project that has taken the form of an online database and numerous exhibitions (including the Venice Biennale and other important venues). The essays explore the social, political, and ethical ramifications of documenting global labour with a roving camera that often operates in close proximity to its human subjects. The inclusion of Antje Ehmann's journal entries, translated for the first time into English, will offer a real-time account of the workshops that will complement the scholarly essays' accounts of the videos.

Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z

Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z
Author: David Adams Leeming
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1023
Release: 2009-10-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 038771801X

Integrating psychology and religion, this unique encyclopedia offers a rich contribution to the development of human self-understanding. It provides an intellectually rigorous collection of psychological interpretations of the stories, rituals, motifs, symbols, doctrines, dogmas, and experiences of the world’s religious traditions. Easy-to-read, the encyclopedia draws from forty different religions, including modern world religions and older religious movements. It is of particular interest to researchers and professionals in psychology and religion.

Programs of Instruction

Programs of Instruction
Author: United States. Drug Enforcement Administration. National Training Institute
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1979
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

Learning Legacies

Learning Legacies
Author: Sarah Robbins
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2017-05-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0472053515

Examines pedagogy as a toolkit for social change, and the urgent need for cross-cultural collaborative teaching methods